Tag Archives: phishing

CheckFree: A Case of Phishing, Pharming and Drive-Bys

9 Jan

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A lot of attention has been given to increasing awareness about phishing. The goal of phishing is to lure unsuspecting people to voluntarily give up their website credentials with the intent of exploiting those credentials for financial or other gain. Some phishing scams only seem to spam and propagate itself. Most web savvy users know [...]

Phishers Target State Department Credit Union

1 Oct

Phishers Target State Department Credit Union

I received this phishing email today.  It probably got through Yahoo’s spam filter because it is image spam.   Clicking on the image in the email, takes you  to some site in Italy. I thought it interesting that it targets customers of the State Department Federal Credit Union.  Perhaps the scammers are targeting this institution because [...]